DEVOTED TO BASE BALL, TRAP SHOOTING AND GENERAL SPORTS

Volume 39, No. 20. Philadelphia, August 2, 1902, Price, Five Cents. THE PLAYERS CHIP IN IN ARKANSAS. WITH A CONTRIBUTION TO THE GAI THE STATE SPORTSMEN©S ASSOCIATION ETY OF THE NATION. HOLD THEIR ANNUAL TOURNEY. The Players© Protective Association Another Successful and Pleasant Meet Decides to Remain Alive, Elects Offi* Coles and Joyner Do Good Shooting cers, and Votes Unanimously to fa* Coles Wins First General Average pet AH Contract Jumpers This Year. Mention of Prominent Southerners.

New York, July 28. Editor "Sporting Robe-line, La., July 19. Editor "Sporting Life:" The annual meeting of the Players© ,ife:" Again has Father Time made the 1©rotoctive Association was held at the ircuit of the seasons and the 12th an- Sturtevant House here uual tournament of the Ar- yesterday. The League del- cansas State Sportsmen©s egates were Hugh Jennings, Association dwells with the representing the Pitts- pleasant memories of the burg. Chicago, Philadelphia last. This is the fifth in and Cincinnati clybs; Char ;uece«siGu attended by.the ley Irwin, Bill Donovau and vriter. The shooters num- Harry Dolan, Brooklyn, and >er about the same each Mnlaehi Kitt ridge. Boston. rear. While never a very i©he dele arge crowd, nearly all gates were: Clarkc Grif- shoot the entire pro lith and , Chica gramme. go; Tom Loftus. Washing The Trade was well rep- ton; Broadway Aleck esented both in quantity Harry Davis Smith, Baltimore; Frank ind quality. The W. R. A. Paul R. Litzke Dwyer and Winnie Mercer, :o. had Messrs. D. Elliott Detroit: Harry Uavis and Topsy Haitsetl, .ud W. A. Frenz, while Mr. G. H. Hill- Philadelphia; Warner, Boston, and Lrank man assisted in the office. The TJ. M. C. Donohue, St. Lonis. The only New \oik leople were represented by Mr. Avery. plaver at the hotel was Bowerman, but This was the latter gentleman©s first ap- he ©did not attend the meeting. >earance here and he shot well and ably Dwyer. of Detroit, was also about ihe ho epresented his goods. tel. President Tom Daly arrived late and Mr. Paul R. Litzke took good care of Mercer presided until his arrival. the interests of the Peters Cartridge Co., OFFICERS ELECTED. his last was the only powder firm rep The resignation of Dale Gear, of the lllltllllillliiiniililinlllll resented, Herbert Taylor being "uu- Kansas City American Association club, as isually" absent. secretary of the Association, was accepted The weather while warm was all that and Harry Davis, of the Philadelphia BERTHOLD J. HUSTINGS, :ould be asked at this season, being bright, Athletics, was elected to fill the vacancy. lear and generally calm. As on last Tom Dalv, of Chicago, was re-elected pres of the Athletic Club, of Philadelphia. /ear the air and roads were full of dust. ident and Frank Douohue, of St. Louis, This was the only discomforting climatic treasurer, making the American League plavers holders of all the offices. There condition. were no changes made in the constitution. DB LONG©S AUTOMOBILE. CONTRACT-JUMPERS BARRED. relish. One of them, on himself, hap players to observe its laws, and most of Mr. De Long represented au automobile Delegate Hartzell made the motion to ex pened some weeks ago. He was seated at all by the action of its present president- manufacturing Co. He treated a number pel this year©s contract jumpers and it was a table in a well-known rathskeller when Tom Daly, of the Chicago Americans, in of the visiting shooters to the delightful unanimously accepted. When Donohue, a couple of husky Germans came in and repudiating the contract which the Asso sensation that only a ride in an automo who acted as official news dispenser of the took seats close by. One of them, evidently ciation forced upon the , bile can give. Under the exhilerating in meeting, was asked who the men under a patron in the first stages, spied and which he, among all men in base ball, fluence of deep rapid breaths of the at the ban were he replied that they were Keeler, and, pointing him out to his friend, should have lived up to as an example to mospheric ozone, the writer ordered one. all those who went to the National League said in a stage whisper: "Dot iss Keeler, the men who had chosen him their leader. The price was $900. On taking an inven in the recent raid on Baltimore; Miller, the Villie Keeler. He iss for two years der WHAT ZIMMBR SAYS. tory of cash and convertible assets, finding pitcher who left Detroit for New York; champion knocker of der League." The "There is nothing solid left in the Play there was still lacking $885, it was reluct and Wolverton, who left Washington for pseudo base ball fan referred to Keeler©s ers© Protective Association," said Zimmer antly given up. Thanks for the ride. Philadelphia. The players who left Balti title as champion batter. Willie remarked during a conversation on the subject. In the absence of Taylor, Hawkins and more for the National League are Mc- that if he had been warned that his repu "There has been no ac Elliot tried to let the calm of nature not Graw, McGann, McGinnity, Bresnahan, tation would be thus assailed he would tivity 011 the part of the be too placid. Considering the gigantic Cronin, Seymour and Kelley. never have essaved to the title. present officials, and there task of filling such a vacancy, they did REASONS FOR THE STEP. will be none. The organi "It was voted to expel the jumping play zation has been allowed to Mr W B. Powell, of English, is a royal ers, and when the evidence is secure©d they OF UTTLEJMPORT die because the members good fellow of the old school. He always will be expelled," said Donohue. "Expul have seen nothing in it to shoots an average of thirteen no matter sion will follow evidence, but we must Is the Disorganized Players© Protective As interest them. Some are what targets, good, bad, fast, slow, high have the evidence. We adopted this motion not pleased with the of or low. If he gets 14 once, he is sure to sociation Ex-President Zimmer Rakes ficers; others object to the because we must protect ourselves." the Indifferent Members Over the Coals. get 12 next time. If a straight is made Harry Davis, one of the brightest and paying of dues, while oth on 15 then a 11 must, intervene to aver- most popular men in base ball, in discus Pittsburg. Pa., July 31. As an active fac ers still believe that they sing the matter said: "The feeling among tor in affairs pertaining to base ball the can do better by them age © A CLOSE RESEMBLANCE. the players against contract jumping is Players© Protective Association is ©no selves than by acting in I heard some one say Farmer and Elmer very severe, and while it may be said that more. Such men as Chas. Charles Zimmer concert with all the other B. Shaner resembled somewhat, neither our Association is not strong and does Zimmer, who was its first players; and so the Play having any gray hairs on the top of his not have much influence, I think the jump president, and the only ers© Protective Association gradually is head. Pemberton shot a great race up ing players will have reason to regret their man who ever showed beiiT? allowed to die out. One hears but until the indicidual medal contest the, action." marked ability in that little of it now, and in a year from now CO-OPERATION PROMISED. position; Fred. Clarke, will hear less. It would have been a gooc last day. He then went all to pieces. The following telegram was receive! manager of the Pittsburgs, thing for the players if they had been When his noble form appeared, stately and from Pat Powers from Niagara Falls: and others who are num true to its principles and the officials had erect at No. 4, I began pointing him out The officers of the National Associa bered with the most intel been active in carrying out all its aims to a few friends as the pride of Little tion of Base Ball Leagues in session ligent players in base ball, and laws. However, there was failure or Rock. L , here extend greeting and express will have declared that the or nil sides, and the result is that the organ In fact explaining that he was the ingness to co-operate upon any reason ganization practically has ization gradually is fading out of exist "Rock " the rest of the town was the able basis that will tend to preserve gone by tne Board, and ence." It is stated by those that know "Little " As John with noble bearing the best interest of base ball. that it exists only for an that very few players in either the Na limbered up and swung his artillery grand There being no other business before the Thomas Da/y occasional order issued tioual or the American Leagues have pah ly into action, proceeding easily and gracg- meeting it adjourned subject to the call of from headquarters orders any dues for a year, and that none fully to miss seven out of nine, the par the chair. ____ that are heeded by only a few of the sev them will do so if called upon to con ties© turned away in disgust, thinking I eral hundred players who paid initiation tribute money to perpetuate the organiza had been stringing thcm.f KEELER©S KICK fees for the good the organization was to tion. this event he disappear^ do them. The vast majority of players WHAT IT ACCOMPLISHED. stay "as if by magic." Captain "Wee Willie" Keeler. of the realize that the Players© Protective Asso The Players© Protective Association was I presume he went str Brooklyns, has a fund of base ball anec ciation is a thing of the past that it was Continued on Twent dotes at command, which he tells with a killed by the failure of tue individual C©ont-nued on Fourth Page. SPORTING L.IFB. August 2, 1902.

lieve in that sort of rubbish. The Brook as bad. He was tamed by those Brooklyn the effect that McGraw would induce Pitch lyn management on the whole seems to be veterans Farrell and McGuire. Jim used er Moore, of Cleveland, to jump, but the fairly well satisfied with the manner in to catch me at Toledo. Donovan pitches captain denies it. Said McGraw: "I©m GONE TO HIS REST. which events are shaping themselves and one of the fastest balls of any fired from satisfied with my staff and I©m going to is rather glad than otherwise that things the League slab to-day. Phillippe, of stand pat on them. As I have full power are beginning to look up a little in the big Pittsburg is fast, and so is Sam Leever to get such players as I may want I do MATTHEW KILL1LEA JOINS THE circuit. One fact is certain, the attend when he is right. Sam has a peculiar mo not care to say who they will be just yet." ance in Brooklyn was boosted the m©oment tion, and I think he puts much of the There was some surprise that McGraw took that the New Yorks came over here with steam into his balls from the muscles of on Outfielder Brown, recently released by GREAT MAJORITY. that new push of theirs. The first day his back. Victor Willis is another member Philadelphia. He will never do, and Jack there were 6,500 where there would not of the fast class." Dunn has been doing a turn in the outfield have been 500, perhaps, with a team no again. There were rumors that Barrett, The Famous American League Magnate better than that which New York had to of Detroit, would be secured, but he has send around the circuit, and the next day, NEW YORK NUGGETS. not yet turned up here. Such a player with rain threatening every moment,, there is needed and it would be well for Mc and Councillor Succumbs to Con were 4,500. That is the difference between McQraw's Reformed Manners in Evidence Graw to get players of his calibre, as tho having a right royal fight with New York —The New Team Eliciting Renewed team is by no means a first division com sumption After a Long and Hard and not having one. Local Interest—The Series With Brook= bination as it stands to-day. Now that NEW YORK INVASION. the public still displays an appetite for There has beeu some talk on this side lyn—Some Complications, Etc. good base ball is McGraw©s time to act. Battle For Life. of the river, that the American League AROUND THE BASES. might put a club in the -Bronx next year. By Wm. F. H. Koehok. Washburn has been released because his I have traveled over almost every foot of New York, July" 28. Editor "Sporting eyes are not in good condition. -Milwaukee, Wis., July 28, Editor "Sport that region on bicycle and I doubt very Life:" Well, Captain John J. McGraw has Roy Evans, so hastily released by Mc ing Life:" The noted base ball magnate, much that a club can be put there which Graw, has been signed by Brooklyn and is Matthew Killilea, died at his country home will make any money. In the first place been with us over a week and has thus far near Winnecoune, yester the residents of that section are not the entirely cut out the - continuing his good work. day, July 27. after an ill kind who could be looked upon to go ver,y baiting practice that made They say that Cy Seymour was to come ness lasting two years. It far toward supporting a club. They might so much trouble for him in to ,New York, but, that he flatly refused began with pleurisy and go occasionally to games, but. it would the American League. That to do so, and, ratiijBif than leave him in ended in consumption. Mat scarcely be a steady habit, because it is change of tactics must have Baltimore, he was i%tted by Cincinnati. thew was a lawyer by pro largely a section of workingmen©s homes. proven to McGraw that the The refusal of Johnny Dobbs to sign a fession, but his fame was In the second place the facilities for get game can be played with New York contract was an unlooked for earned in base ball. He ting there are simply absurd when an ef vim and snap minus snarl turn, as he was to eorne here in place of first became interested in fort must be made to move large crowds. ing and violent kicking. Seymour. base ball in 1894 when he The section of the city that supports base More than that, the play It is said that this wiS*** the National joined the stock company ball in New York at the present time is ing of the former Oriole League will have to face* a condition formed to conduct the Mil largely that of Harlem and the west side has been Improved because brought on bj&r the Baltimore transaction waukee club in the old and more particularly the latter. The he has devoted his entire alongside of -wJSpb, the Manhattan Field Western League. He was East Side has its devotees, but not the energies to his playing in- rental proposition* «KA\l appear as a mole Malt Ki"ilea elected president and acted cash as a rule. A club in the Bronx would W. F. H. Hoelscb stead of continually harping hill to a mountain. in that capacity until the have to look to the east side for its sup on the umpire. It is to be Brodie-has done,so well that it is about team was transferred to St. Louis last port and except on Saturdays probably sincerely hoped that the change in the cap due for the "hams" to have him fired. spring. Matt was well liked by the play would go begging more than once. tain©s tactics is a permanent one. Often The McGraw episode will result in some ers, as he always treated them with re GREATEST OBJECTION the temptation to jump on the umpire has sensational changes this winter. An spect and did much to advance their cause. of all, however, is the expense. Even up been great. McGraw plainly showed how American League m&n "in the know" says He was the brains of the American League, in the Bronx a ground could not be se hard it was to refrain from the old prac New York will surely have an American having advised Ban Johnson in all his cured without paying a rather stiff jprice tice. But the little captain won the strug League club next year. moves before and after the war started for it, and ou top of that it would be nec gle thus far, and should shake the old Irwin says: "When I traded Doyle for with the National League. Even the gen essary to put up quite a pile to grade a desire every time it asserts itself. Mc- Gleason wye received $2500 to boot and ius, John T. Brush, with all his base ball field. McGraw told me that he had can Graw©s work at short has been extra fine could have purchased Lajoie and Geier for experience, failed to cope successfully with vassed the situation thoroughly from A to and one stop and throw he made in Brook $1200 shortly afterward." th£ Milwaukee magnate, although the lat 7j, being anxious to get in here with the lyn last week clearly demonstrated that he In Philadelphia they say Fogel* made a ter was new to the game compared to the Baltimore American League Club if it has lost none of his cunning. His coming great effort to sign Lajoie. They say I.arry Cincinnati man. Charlie Comiskey ami were possible to do so, but he could see here and the improvement shown in the went to bed dazed when Horace pointed other well known magnates, have said that nothing in it. McGraw is a shrewd busi team©s work has done much to improve the out to him how great an electric sign over Matt Killilea had all the other leaders ness man and all his moves have been local situation, as was evidenced by the a Broadway resort reading "Lajoie & beaten a mile when it came to base ball made, as a rule, with a keen eye to the fine attendance at the New York-Brooklyn Fogel" would look. law. The American League will certainly advancement of his own interests, which games. have a hard time muling a man who will is quite natural. He could not figure that A HOT SETRIES. engineer and give the legal advise that Mr. it would be possible to laud a club in New Killilea has dealt out in the past. In the four games of the week the teams York sfco©rt of $175,000 ground rent, taxes, both played good ball, and the games were The Sharp-Tongued Chicago Chief Hands stands, salary list, grading and everything sharply contested. It was an even break, BULLETIN. else considered, and knowing a little about in wliieh the old twirlers, Tavlor and Out Some Hot Ones to McGraw For the way in which you get soaked iu New Mathewson won brackets, while Cronin and That Baltimore Sell-Out. York in matters of this kind I McGinuity played losing parts. For Brook Star Players Being Bagged For Next Year think he is about right. In fact lyn Kitson and Donovan shone very bril Charles Augustus Comiskey can hand out —Beneficial Effects of the Strengthening I doubt if he could get in as a hot one when in the mood. He felt that cheap as that before he had finished with liantly, while Hughes and Newton offi w; " ©her day when asked his views of the Giants—Obstacle to an Invasion the long list that must be seen before any ciated in the losing games. All four of of the Baltimore coup. of New York. thing© is doing. You don©t knO©W what it is those games were © battles, and Said he: "I think it is until you up against that proposition some high class work was shown by the the cheapest play I ever By John B. Foster. in this big city. There is plenty of it ou twirlers from both sides of the bridge. saw pulled off in base ball, this aide of the river as well as the other. The increased attendance was evidence of and the men who did it; Brooklyn, N. Y., July 28. Editor "Sport SOME! PROBLEMS. the fact so long apparent, and yet so long will find out I am right ing Life:" The rumor factory has been However, if the American League can ignored by the local club, that all Greater before they get through working overtime this week. Whoever is find an angel who is willing to put up New York needed wuj a really good team, with it. Why, that deH at the crank turning out all the cash to take a chance here for good and the expense for same would prove a will do the America i these fairy tales must have ness© sake let him come. New York grows highly profitable investment. Fully 15,000 League a lot of good and his bands full from one wealthy on that sort of thing. I don©t crowded into Washington Park last Sat cannot help the National. day©s end to the other. We know how kindly the newspapers would urday, and it was one of the larg They have rid us, without have had every old player take to a team that played in the Bronx. est crowds ever in that park. Sure any©blame attaching to our back, who left Brooklyn in New York is a very peculiar place in that ly President Ebbetts© oft-repeated dec shoulders, of the worst the past, and in addition to respect. The New York morning papers, laration that all that was needed to Chas. Comiskey bunch that ever broke into S;*?: them so many more that as a rule, handle little about the Brooklyn make Brooklyn, a good base ball city was base ball and of men who jSil Han ion would have three or club when the New Yorks are playing a strong team in Manhattan, has been have been a menace to the American :!M::;;; four nines on his hands in- good ball, and there is some reason to be made good. The entire National League League ever since we took them in. Jspp stead of one. Really there lieve that the provincialism of the people has reason for thanksgiving now that "McGRAW AND STARLINGS :;MS; is some reason to believe living on the island of Manhattan would the New York Club has apparently made tried to sell us out to the old League last :: | that certain Brooklyn play- cause them to look upon a team playing a live move. year, but were caught redhanded; then ::; ers, who once were with iu the Bronx as little better than one play ECHOES OF THE "COUP." they got down on their knees and begged ilst the local team, have been ing in New Jersey. It seems that while New York and Cin for forgiveness. We have kuawn we had seen by some of the men AS TO DREYFUSS cinnati raked in some needed material, the traitors there all©along, but could not get connected with the Brooklyn Club, but it Frank Hough. I see, is throwing a few ©"blow" aimed at the American League rid of them without trouble. Now the Na is barely possible that they were not ask scare heads into Barney Dreyfuss. That©s and executed by John T. Brush did not tional has cleared the way for us. Ban ed, to sign with Brooklyn this year, and it the game, is it? Work upon Barney until jar that husky organization for an in is very probable that, they were asked to do you get somebody bearing tales from one Johnson has beeu tipped off all along just, side to the other. The American League stant. The way Johnson patched matters how things were going and was prepared business with Brooklyn next year, and even up and the solid support accorded him by for it. We will go right "ahead and givf more probable that they hmve done some. is a case of being very dear to Poll©s heart the other clubs only demonstrated more And there will be others. No matter how in this instance. Barney Di©eyfuss is all the Baltimore public a lot better base ball right. There is not the slightest prospect clearly the solidity and stability of the than McGraw or Kelley could ever give it. much the players may deny I know posi American League, and at. the same time We have made a base ball town out. of tively that American League men have that he will be frozen out of the National removed the one discordant note in an signed contracts to play with the Na League at any stage of the game or that Cleveland after the old-league methods kill any attempt will be made to freeze him otherwise harmonious organization. It also ed it. Is there any reason why we cau©r, tional League next year who arc not even found Ban Johnson, as has been the rule, do the same by Baltimore©.© The Ameri suspected of leaving the other organiza out. Barney Dreyfuss has got two or the right man in the right place. This tion. three players mi his team who are not the can league had the National League ail bt©iM behaved young men in the world, iiud American League has been brought more down and out last winter, and they know THE NEW YORKS to the notice of local .fans through the came over to Brooklyn and had a great if he. doesn©t know it there are a great it. Both factions were trying to lean ou deal of fun with us. The New Yorks, as many persons who do. 1 don©t believe that Baltimore incident than ever before, and us, and we could have killed the National John T. Brush has made one ruling against coupled- with the declaration that it is to League by saying the word. It has always they are at present, are not quite as good invade New York next year, it is beginning as they will be when McGraw gets through the players of the Pittsburg team that he been the good of the game with the Ameri with them, but they are not the same New did not. lithievf himself .instilled in making, to be much discussed by local base ball can League, but it is always extermin Yorks that have, beeu playing on the other and further it can be proved by the corres folks. ation and self-interest with the National. side of the river, and it was not so much pondence that Mr. Brush has from the NEW YORK FORCED TO ACT. So loug as we deliver the goods to the pub of a disgrace to be beaten by them. New umpires of the National League that he We hear rumors of a plan to saddle the lic it will be with us." York has a very strong pitching staff. made no move that was not based upon the expense incurred by the Baltimore sell McGUAWS FAILURE. There is no question about that. The men complaints of the judges of play. If Frank, out, on the League, thus making each club "McGraw- talks about Ban Johnson who are in line for the Giants can do a dear boy. wants to say anything about pay its proTuta share. Mr. Brush must driving him out of the league. Do you heap toward winning their games. Taylor players ©being removed without cause, he smooth over some matters in his own know who drove him to the backwoods? ami Mathewson never were better, McGin- wants to carefully review the scientific league. Of course, it was all caused by a It was Griffith and Jimmy Collius. That nity will be able to hold his own. Ci©ouin manner in which the- president of the desire to cripple the opposition and will man McGraw came to us with a reputation Beeuis to be of average strength at least, League for which he is working has care be submitted to the other clubs in that as a great manager. He never was as and much, is expected of Miller, who will fully adjusted matters for the last three form. But Mr. Brush would not have acted great a player as Collins is or as Davis is, exert himself, now that he has got with years. It is a rich and rare bit of diplo to such an extent had it not been neces^ but he wasra great ©inside© mail, so every a manager to his liking. With not much macy. sary, nor would the New York Club have body said. But it was all a four flush. hope of getting the batters he wanted this loosened up had it not been made plain He had a little luck the one year after year McGraw made a great play in going LEAGUE PITCHERS. that something had to be done. New York Hanlon went to Brooklyn. When he went out after the pitchers who would do him iu the tail-end position with such formid up against such men as Griffith and Col the most good. He has a lot that will help Umpire Hank O'Day Hands Out Pointers able opposition in Boston, Philadelphia and lins, whom nobody ever heard of as man New York a great deal in any tight that About a Few. Chicago, made it absolutely necessary to agers, they made McGraw look cheap, and may be made in the future for the cham Umpire Hank O©Day says concerniug strengthen the local club in order to brace with, no better teams than he had. Ho pionship. the speed of tin- pitchers he is working the returns on the season. The radical could not deliver the goods. Then he trieii MR. A BELL with: "I don©t think that there is as much action taken would indicate that the move to lay it to any old thing except his own came down from Massachusetts to see a speed used by the modern pitchers as was was made in desperation. ©Had nothing inability. If McGraw had gone along .witli game and incidentally to talk over the brought into play by the old-timers. Do been done to revive interest iu the game